Quick Start Guide - Wizards Corporate

1 AGE 13+. Quick Start Guide hunt BIGGER. game Welcome to Magic: The Gathering , the world's premier trading card game. You're about to discover why millions around the world play Magic : its deep strategy, its beautiful worlds and strong characters, and its worldwide community. If you already own some Magic cards, get them out now. Those cards represent the tools you'll use to defeat your opponents. You'll summon fearsome creatures, wield mystical items and incantations, and cast wondrous magical spells. The cards are your game pieces, and you can put them together in countless combinations. There are thousands of cards to choose from, so where do you get started? Each player needs a deck of at least 60 cards, and an intro pack is a great way to get one.

2 Intro packs give you everything you need to Start playing: a ready-to-play 60-card deck filled with creatures, lands, and other spells. You also get two 15-card booster packs, giving you more cards to make your deck your own. 2 Illus. Tyler Jacobson Hand you 16 li fe le ft Getting Library Started M 1 5 EN Howard Lyon & 2014 Wizards of the Coast & 2014 Wizards of the Coast 2 5 2 / 269 L. M 1 5 EN Allen Williams & 2014 Wizards of the Coast 0 1 0 / 269 C. & 2014 Wizards of the Coast & 2014 Wizards of the Coast may champion her people. With an armory of light, even the squire Basic Land Swamp Enchanted creature gets +1/+3. Basic Land Plains battlefield, you gain 3 life. When Divine Favor enters the Cliff Childs Enchant creature Swamp Basic Land Swamp Basic Land Plains 2 5 9 / 269 L.

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8 2014. Wizard 5/5.. M15 s of the Coast Hand 3. Types of Cards Your deck includes lands and creatures, and it may also include sorceries, instants, artifacts, enchantments, and planeswalkers! On the next few pages, we'll take a look at what the different types of cards are and how to use them. Lands Forest Land cards are the foundation of any successful Magic deck. Lands provide mana, the magical energy you need to cast all the other cards in your deck. You can play one land during your main phase on each of your turns. Lands stay on the battlefield in front of you. Your lands untap (reset) at the Start of each of your turns so that you can use them again. There are five types of basic land, each one corresponding est Basic Land For to one of the five colors of magic.

9 Each color of magic has different strengths and capabilities. You'll get to know the colors as you play more. Not all lands are basic lands. Some nonbasic lands tap for & 2014 Wizard s of the Coast multiple colors of mana, while others tap for colorless mana 2 69 / 269 L. M 1 5 EN Jonas De Ro (o1, 2. o , etc.) but have unique abilities. Basic land type Can be tapped for Plains oW (white). Island oU (blue). Swamp oB (black). Mountain oR (red). Forest oG (green). 4. Spells Every card that isn't a land can be cast as a spell. Some types of spells are put onto the battlefield and become permanents. Other types of spells have their effect and then go to your graveyard (discard pile).

10 Elvish Mystic oG. O. Creatures Creatures are permanents that represent your minions. During combat, they can attack your opponents and defend you from opposing attacks. You can cast creature spells during your main phase. Creatu re Elf Druid oT: Add o to yo G. Life gr ur man a pool. find th ows everywhere Nissaose places where . My kin Revane it grows merely strongest.. 1 7 3 / 269. OoW. O o5. O C. o1 M15 . EN. Wesley Burt 1/1. e & . Meteorit 2014 Wiza rds of the Coast vor Div in e Fa Artifacts & Enchantments Artifacts and enchantments are permanents that represent magic items and stable magical manifestations. Most artifacts are colorless, meaning they don't require a specific color of mana to t ura acA efield, cast.